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Re: Memory usage: buffer and cache



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You should use reply-to-list, not reply-to-all on mailing lists.
Also, please see http://ursine.dyndns.org/wiki/index.php?title=Top_Posting

Micheal Mukherji <michy.mighty@gmail.com> writes:

> Buffer is a logical cache maintained by the operating system in the
> main memory while cache is actually a physical hardware that the cpu
> uses to decrease the effective memory access time.

That's not what I'm talking about.  I know what CPU cache is, I'm
talking about what shows up in memory usage under Linux.

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